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Sunday, February 24, 2008

Larry Sinclair Lied. Fails Lie Detector Test.

Deception Indicated in Both of Larry Sinclair's Polygraph Tests by First Polygraph Expert Whitehouse.com2/24/2008 2:15 PM

Dr. Ed Gelb, Former President of the American Polygraph Association was the Polygraph expert selected by Whitehouse.com. He has done over 30,000 polygraph examinations over his long career. There were two polygraph tests administered by Dr. Gelb on Friday. the first polygraph asked Mr. Sinclair on his sex claims. The second polygraph test asked Mr. Sinclair on the drug use claims. There was deception indicated in both tests.As mentioned yesterday Mr. Sinclair did pass his drug screen so there were no drugs in his system which could have interfered with the test. We have asked Mr. Sinclair on several occasions to put us in contact with the Limousine driver that he named for other news organizations earlier and for us on Friday that was supposed to corroborate his story. As of today he has still not put us in contact with the limousine driver whom he told us he stays in constant contact with.

It was our intention to get to the truth in this serious matter rather than have these allegations that were made almost a month ago drag on to election day. Due to the seriousness of this issue we made the results public today rather than waiting until Monday when we would have received the second expert's conclusions. When we receive the second expert's conclusions we will post those results as well.

We will have all of the written results posted on the site in the next week including video taken of the Polygraph testing so there will be full disclosure and transparency on our part and eliminate any suspicion of any wrongdoing or manipulations of the testing or the results by Whitehouse.com or the polygraph experts. Later this afternoon we will post the actual report by Dr. Gelb.

I did a search to see if there were any other you tube related sites that were up or down. (Youtube stills seems to be under assault). There is in fact a site called "youporn.com" where you take sonia on the beach and post it for posterity. i kid you not.

The way to do politics would be for the worthless Pubs, and the Wimp in the WH, esp defend their freaking allies.The LA Times has posted more than enough on Harry Reid to have him indicted many years ago, but instead we read about the latest Pub prosecuted byBUSH's TRAITOROUS "JUSTICE" DEPT!

Meanwhile Bergler runs free, and Jefferson keeps his money in the freezer.

CHAMAN: Two blasts here damaged as many oil tankers supplying fuel to Nato forces in Afghanistan, police said on Friday.

The first blast damaged the frame of a tanker carrying 36,000 litres of JP oil. The tanker was parked near a checkpost for security clearance. More than 8,000 litres of oil was burnt. Another oil tanker was partially damaged in a blast near the Zhara Band area. Police said they were investigating the nature of the blasts.

According to the Hillary campaign, the delegates from Florida and Michigan should all be seated for her at the convention, but the superdelegates should not follow the popular vote for Obama, and should vote for Hillary, too.

From NYTimes link:"Dan Kearney was essentially lord of the Korengal Valley. A self-described Georgia army brat, he grew up idolizing his warrior dad, Frank Kearney, and wanted to move in his father’s world of covert and overt operations. (His father is now a lieutenant general in Special Operations command.) Kearney often calls himself a dumb jock, playing the crass, loudmouthed tough guy with his soldiers. He had been in Iraq and told me he had gone emotionally dead there with all the dying and killing, and stayed that way until the birth of his son a year ago. His hardest day in Iraq was when a close friend, Rob Shaw, was severely wounded by an improvised explosive device that killed his first sergeant and a bunch of their friends — and the next thing he knew their colonel was asking Kearney to step in for Shaw and lead the company.

But as hard as Iraq was, he said, nothing was as tough as the Korengal. Unlike in Iraq, where the captains and lieutenants could let down their guard in a relatively safe, fortified operating base, swapping stories and ideas, here they had no one to talk to and were almost as vulnerable to enemy fire inside the wire as out. Last summer, insurgents stormed one of the bases in a nearby valley and wounded 16.

And unlike every other place I’ve been in Afghanistan — even the Pech River valley, just an hour’s drive away — the Korengal had no Afghan police or district leaders for the Americans to work with. The Afghan government, and Afghans down the valley, seemed to have washed their hands of the Korengalis. As Kearney put it to me one day at the KOP, the Korengal is like a tough Los Angeles neighborhood, “and we’re the L.A.P.D. kicking in the door, arresting guys, demanding information about the gangs, and slowly the people say, ‘No, we don’t know anything, because that guy in the gang, he’s with my sister, and that other guy, he’s my uncle’s cousin.’ Now we’ve angered them for so many years that they’ve decided: ‘I’m gonna stick with the A.C.M.’ ” — anticoalition militants — “ ‘who are my brothers and I’m not gonna rat them out.’ ”"

Well, I think Wretchard is saying the strategy of pouring a lot of men into Afghanistan is called into question by the Afghanistan-Korengal story, and that the real strategic gravity of al-Qaeda is in the Middle East, not Pakistan. Like my hair, I have been slowly losing strtegic gravity for years.

It's possible that the LOC could be bit into in a serious way. Won't happen, though. (Reminds me of Lang's very similar south Iraq nightmare scenario; a case where genuine vulnerabilities are recognized and one's own vanity encourages alarmism on the matter. Not saying that's Cannoneer's particular impulse, only that one reminds me of the other.)

Re: Musharraf

They'd have to threaten him with impeachment, and they don't have the votes to carry it out. He can be politically marginalized, but he'll stay on. He's not Prime Minister, after all.

McCain, I believe, was a more or less notorious womanizer. Maybe someone (other than his first wife) could make the case for holding that against him, but any number of times in the past seven years I've wished we had a mere adulterer back in the Oval Office.

We have just received word that the second polygraph expert's results will be done in about an hour. We will just wait until then to post both results at the same time as we said we would do in the first place. It will be between 1:00 PM and 1:30 PM EST.

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice issued a statement shortly before parliament met, calling the developments a "significant moment in Cuba's history," but saying Cubans have a right "to choose their leaders in democratic elections."

She also urged the Cuban government to "to begin a process of peaceful, democratic change by releasing all political prisoners, respecting human rights, and creating a clear pathway towards free and fair elections."

In Venezuela, President Hugo Chavez, a close friend of Castro, said the leadership change in Havana was "occurring without any type of trauma."

n.The ratio of the mass of a solid or liquid to the mass of an equal volume of distilled water at 4°C (39°F) or of a gas to an equal volume of air or hydrogen under prescribed conditions of temperature and pressure. Also called relative density.

It would seem to be the ratio of the mass of a-Q adherents to the mass of an equal volume of distilled water displaced by same at 4 degrees C.

The Sunni insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq is telling its followers to soften their tactics in order to regain popular support in the western province of Anbar, where Sunni tribes have turned against the organization and begun working with U.S. forces, according to group leaders and American intelligence officials.

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"We do not deny the difficulties we are facing right now," said Riyadh al-Ogaidi, a senior leader, or emir, of al-Qaeda in Iraq in the Garma region of eastern Anbar province. "The Americans have not defeated us, but the turnaround of the Sunnis against us had made us lose a lot and suffer very painfully."

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Al-Qaeda in Iraq's change in tactics comes in response to the turmoil and self-doubt that arose among its members as they lost the support of Sunni tribesmen, a process vividly described in a letter by an unnamed al-Qaeda in Iraq emir that the U.S. military said it seized last November.

Somebody ought to ask these Predidential contenders who owns the Spratly Islands.

China, and Taiwan, both claim the whole area, and every other nation in the area stakes claims, and we've got defense treaties with at least two of them. China claims it going back to the Tang Dynasty(618-907) but that's a fakaroo based on some old fishing trips. There have been shots fired in the aptly named area of Mischief Reef in the last decade. Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei, Taiwan, China, Japan, the Philippines and anybody else you can think of all claim part or all of it.

Taiwan's President Chen Shui-bian re-ignited passions over the South China Sea's Spratly Islands with his visit to disputed area earlier this month. Both Taiwan (ROC) and China (PRC) legally claim sovereign rights over the Spratly archipelago, composed of islets and reefs in the form of a U-shaped line based, on the same assertion that they are historically Chinese waters.

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Taiwan was the first of the claimant countries to establish a military presence and exercise effective jurisdiction over the Spratly Islands after World War II. The PRC, the latecomer in this island-grabbing race, started its first occupation of Yongshu Jiao (Fiery Cross) in 1988.

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Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Liu Jianchao avoided direct comments on President Chen's historic trip to Taiping Island, and only stated that "China has indisputable sovereignty over the Nansha Islands and adjacent waters. Taiwan is an inseparable part of Chinese territory.

President Bush, during his trip to Africa last week, said it is now time "for the newly elected folks to show up and form their government. The question now is, `Will they be friends of the United States?'

I hope so." He also called Musharraf after his party lost in voting last Monday.

Biden and Hutchison spoke on "This Week" on ABC. Hagel was on "Late Edition" on CNN.

When asked about the New York senator's recent shame on you harangue of her Senate colleague from Illinois, Granholm told CBS's Face the Nation Sunday Clinton was simply defending her position on healthcare in the United States.

I'm sure she is going to be very passionate about it, and I think rightly so, the Michigan official said of Clinton's comment Saturday.

After a long discussion of China's naval buildup--(or, have you ever wondered what happened to East Germany's Navy?)--

"As recently as fifteen years ago, the nations of SE Asia possessed few deep sea warships. Since the late 1980's however these countries have engaged in costly efforts to equip their navies with modern vessels capable of operating on the high seas. Although intended for a variety of purposes, these ships are clearly designed to provide their owners with a capacity to protect vital sea-lanes and their extensive EEZ's(exclusive economic zones) in the South China Sea.

Leading the way is Malaysia. An increasingly affluent nation of 24 million people, Malaysia has sought to develop the largest and most potent navy in SE Asia. In 1995, it purchased four fully equipped missile corvettes from Italy; originally built for Iraq these 750 ton vessels are armed with a 76mm gun and Otoman antisip missiles. Malysia has also acquired two F-2000 frigates from Yarrow Shipbuilders of Glasow and fitted them with a panoply of advanced European gun and missile systems. And, in its most ambitious project yet, Malaysia has contracted for the production, in domestic shipyards, of up to 27 Melo 100 patrol ships, making his the largest multiship naval construction program now under way in Asia.

Thailand and Indonesia, in differing ways, have also endeavored to assemble a significant deep sea navy. Thailand has sought prominence by acquiring the region's first aircraft carrier. Built by Spain, the carrier is intended to carry up to twelve medium helicopters or fifteen vertical takeoff and landing planes. The Thais have also purchased two Knox class frigates from the United States and three patrol boats from Australia. Indonesia, meanwhile attempted to jump start its naval expansion plans by buying the entire navy of the former East Germany. Included in this thirty nine ship deal, concluded after German reunification in 1991, were 16 corvettes, nine minesweepers, and a variety of support ships. On top of this, Indonesia has purchased six surplus frigates from the Netherlands and three from the United Kingdom."

Goes on to describe the smaller efforts by smaller countries in the area. Whoile area is getting armed up.

The cultural traditions and values of American society originate from the Judeo-Christian heritage of our Founding Fathers. They pledged allegiance to “one nation under God,” with the Creator as the source of our inalienable civil rights and liberties.

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Last week, Mohammed Khan, the imam of the Islamic Center of Des Moines, led the opening prayer in the Iowa legislature at the request of Iowa State Representative Ako Abdul-Samad, a former Iowa school board member who has worked as a counselor in the Iowa prison system, and has questionable associations with Islamic extremists.

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...public expressions of Islamic support have increased dramatically:

* Rep. Abdul-Samad is a former president of the Islamic Center in Des Moines, which first achieved notoriety in 2004 when it welcomed Muslim extremist Ibrahim Dremali as its new imam. Dremali came to Des Moines after a hasty departure from a position at the Islamic Center of Boca Raton, shortly after a local physician and congregant, Rafiq Sabir, was arrested and pled guilty for swearing allegiance to Al Qaeda.

President Bush enjoyed a friendly welcome throughout his African visit where he was able to highlight his Administration’s increased aid commitments. But his agenda in Washington has become more complex.

Senior officials view the outcome of the parliamentary election in Pakistan as especially troubling. President Musharraf was never a perfect partner for the US.

Nonetheless, as a Pentagon officials commented to us: “Our counter-terrorism and Afghan policies depend on his survival. This is now in doubt.”

If the strategic centers of gravity are ideology and money, they can't be (centrally) geographically located (for instance, in either the ME or SA). There are nodes, but only nodes. (Wretch leaves out cult of personality as another strategic center; one which CAN be geographically located, but that's another debate.) And your counters are disruption and (dis)information at those nodes - fifty-some and counting, of greater and lesser importance, by off-hand reckoning.

But what if Pope Benedict XVI is inviting us to hold together in our consciousness what appears to be contradictory intuitions: a commitment to absolute truth and to genuine openness? We need to admit to ourselves that we do believe that the truth we ultimately stake our life on is deeper than what others possess, and at the same time we need to embrace that this is not incommensurate with a deep ecumenism.

One might call this post-postmodern — neither a traditionalist understanding of the truth in the pre-modern sense, with its arrogant absolutism, nor a relativistic understanding of the truth in the postmodern sense, with its false humility that all truths are really equal except, of course, this truth. Call it a humble absolutism.

Ultimately, the crucial measure for a religion is if its teachings and practices help us remove the veils from our own hearts — that is, become more humble and honest about our own lives and more compassionate and loving to all of God’s creatures. If returning to the Latin Mass and reasserting the hope that Jews find salvation in Jesus does this for Catholics, then all will be well.

Brother D, if you haven't read it, a book called "The Places In Between" by that English or Scot feller that hiked through Afghanistan. They have women there that have never been out of the village and down the road five miles to the next village. Whole place is an absolute disaster and always will be as long as they have that stupid book the koran.

Trying to topple a thousand year rule of total fucking insanity with the doctrine of reason in a landlocked country surrounded by countries that have a vested interest in the continuation of total fucking insanity.

On a remote island near the North Pole the Norwegians are building an International Seed Bank inside a frozen Arctic mountain.

Dag Brox, Site Manager, Doomsday Vault:

It’s exciting, it’s a very special project - there’s a lot of interest.

Magnus Tveiten, Project Manager, Doomsday Vault:

Everyone thinks that this is a very exciting project and it’s a once in a lifetime project. But I’ve never been responsible for something like this.

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Dr. Cary Fowler, Exec. Dir. Global Crop Diversity Trust:

A lot of people today are concerned about extinction and we’re going to end that process of the extinction of agricultural crop varieties because we will have a safety backup and it’s going to be in a safe place.

Sam, I knew a guy once that was in Ag Sciences, he told a story about some Russians during the war, that starved to death, or at least nearly so, rather than eat their stash of different kinds of crop seeds. True story, I quess.

Congress returns from recess this week. As we go to press, Speaker Pelosi continues to indicate she will not allow a vote on the bipartisan Senate surveillance bill.

This demonstrates a fundamental lack of seriousness about national security on the part of congressional Democrats. Newsflash: The United States faces a persistent threat of attack from a terrorist organization with global reach and the desire to massacre as many innocent people as possible.

Do House Democrats really want to make the terrorists' jobs any easier?

Vavilov wasn't the only Russian scientist who died in the name of crop diversity. During the 872-day Nazi blockade of Leningrad, Vavilov's colleagues holed up inside the gene bank he founded, determined to protect the seed collection from the Germans and the city's hungry residents. There, locked inside a building filled with seeds, roughly a dozen scientists died of starvation.

Some of the $20 bills recovered from the legendary 1971 “D.B. Cooper” skyjacking were displayed at the show by PCGS Currency for the public to see in person for the first time. Brian Ingram of Arkansas, who was 8tyears old when he found the bills along the Columbia River near Vancouver, Wash., in 1980, attended the opening of the show to see the historic notes on display.

The larger the mob, the harder the test. In small areas, before small electorates, a first-rate man occasionally fights his way through, carrying even the mob with him by force of his personality. But when the field is nationwide, and the fight must be waged chiefly at second and third hand, and the force of personality cannot so readily make itself felt, then all the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre — the man who can most easily adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum.

The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

Ra¿l has also offered to initiate dialogue with the United States, which, along with international human rights groups, accuses the Castro regime of political repression and the jailing of dissidents. Assembly member Nieves L¿pez, who was 9 when Fidel took power, said in an interview that "Cuba does not have a single political prisoner."

The talk outside the legislative chamber Sunday was not about change -- it was about preserving Fidel Castro's policies.

"Our political project must stay the same," L¿pez said. "Our system is well-defined, and it will not change."

"If the strategic centers of gravity are ideology and money, they can't be (centrally) geographically located (for instance, in either the ME or SA)."

I think you're wrong about this. It depends on context.

If I rely on money, and that money comes from a specific gold mine, that gold mine, geographically located, is my center of gravity. The parallel is that, though not entirely limited to it, Al Qaeda’s many donators in the Gulf States benefit primarily from their oil wealth.

And ideology can be geographically located to an extent, if a certain area is more naturally receptive to it. Originally, Al Qaeda’s core ideology was most attractive, for a number of reasons, to Arabs in the Middle East. Unfortunately, now it’s obviously gone global to some extent, but originally it could have been located. The extent to which it can be today is, I think, an open question.

In Venezuela, President Hugo Chavez reaffirmed his economic and political support of Cuba when he took a telephone call from Raul Castro after the session. Chavez also sent a message to his ally Fidel, whom he visited numerous times during his illness.

"Fidel, comrade," Chavez said, "I send you a hug. You continue to be El Comandante."

Earlier Sunday, Chavez scoffed at the idea of a transition in Cuba, saying "the transition occurred 49 years ago," from U.S.-dominated capitalism to socialism.

COL. PREYSLER: Thanks, Bryan, and I appreciate you guys letting me rehearse a couple weeks ago. Hopefully I can get this right today.

Good morning from Forward Operating Base Fenty in Jalalabad, Afghanistan. On behalf of all those serving in Task Force Bayonet and our partners in the Afghan National Security Forces, I'd like to thank you for the opportunity to speak today.

Task Force Bayonet is built around the 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team based in Italy and Germany. The 173rd is an organization with a vast amount of experience, having deployed previously to both Iraq and more recently Afghanistan. Rounding out the task force are elements of the Arizona National Guard, individual augmentees from the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and all areas of Reserve and National Guard forces.

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At this time, I'd be happy to take any questions.

MR. WHITMAN: All right. We'll get started here with Kristin.

Q Sir, it's Kristin Roberts with Reuters. I'm hoping you can give us an idea of the levels of violence you're seeing now, compared with perhaps when you began there on your latest tour in Afghanistan.

COL. PREYSLER: Yeah. Good question. We came in during a tough period in June when, of course, the harvest is in and the fighting season, because of weather, is definitely permissive.

It's hard to compare from year to year specifically in our area, because we've never had this much force in this particular area of operation.

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Q Can you tell me if, since June, you've seen an increase in suicide attacks particularly?

COL. PREYSLER: Yes, there has been an increase in suicide attacks across the country. Again, drawing back from my first tour, there was very few if any suicide attacks.

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Q Colonel, Jeff Schogol with Stars and Stripes.

I understand that in the 173rd's last combat tour to Afghanistan, it suffered a total of 18 fatalities: 17 from the 173rd and one from SETAF. So far this year, in the last four months, I understand the unit has suffered 16 fatalities. Please let me know if that figure is incorrect. Does that mean Afghanistan has become a more dangerous place for soldiers since your last tour?

COL. PREYSLER: No, I believe those numbers are accurate. I would not make that assessment, that things are more dangerous just because of certain casualty comparisons from one year to another.

"Al Qaeda’s many donators in the Gulf States benefit primarily from their oil wealth."

To a great extent they do. And what to do about this? Until alternative fuels give fossil fuels a run for their money, I sincerely don't know.

"Originally, Al Qaeda’s core ideology was most attractive, for a number of reasons, to Arabs in the Middle East. Unfortunately, now it’s obviously gone global to some extent, but originally it could have been located. The extent to which it can be today is, I think, an open question."

The last point at which a handful of take-downs could have delivered a sucking chest wound to al Qaeda was the late 90s, and none of them would have been in the Gulf.

Magnificent Ronald and the Founding Fathers of al Qaeda

“These gentlemen are the moral equivalents of America’s founding fathers.” — Ronald Reagan while introducing the Mujahideen leaders to media on the White house lawns (1985). During Reagan’s 8 years in power, the CIA secretly sent billions of dollars of military aid to the mujahedeen in Afghanistan in a US-supported jihad against the Soviet Union. We repeated the insanity with ISIS against Syria.